Plans to expand the brewery from a one barrel plant to a five-to-eight barrel plant and establish dedicated premises are being helped along by a crowdfunding bid which has so far raised more than £4,500 of its £5,000 target.

Those who pledge money are rewarded with goodies including beer, t-shirts, brew days and even the chance to help design their own beer.

Doug said he had no intention of making Here Be Monsters a ‘behemoth of a brewery’.

Doug Scard's Here Be Monsters Craft Brewery, Cinder Hills, Holmfirth.

“I want it to be a great, successful little brewery,” he said. “I want it to provide a good income and great working environment for a small number of people, and I want to make great beer.”

Doug, a former web developer, had been home brewing on and off since his youth, and, wanting to leave the web industry, began to research how to turn his hobby into a full-time job.

He said: “I weaselled my way in through an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.

The unusual name after Doug and his wife moved from Leeds to Lindley, then Holmfirth — and realised many of their old friends in the city had never heard of the town.

Doug said: “During a conversation in 2013, my wife and I realised that, as far as many city­folk were concerned, Holmfirth was completely off the map. This idea brought to mind how ancient cartographers would illustrate the unexplored corners of the known world with illustrations of terrifying beasts. The ‘Here Be Monsters’ brand was born that very moment.”